Thursday, March 31, 2016

Light City panel: Venture capitalists are still focused on profits — but also purpose

From the venture capitalist’s seat, there used to be two kinds of entrepreneurs: those who wanted to make money and those who wanted to contribute to the social good. “We are capitalists at heart — our objective is to make money for the people that provide us with the capital,“ Ashton Newhall, managing general partner at Owings Mills-based Greenspring Associates, said Thursday during an investment panel at the Light City U Health and Sustainability conferences. "But in some ways there’s…



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